Thursday, November 3, 2011

It's just a rash

Or so I thought. I waited a few days too many before I finally succumbed to the sage advice of going to the doctor. But, at that point - there's nothing I wanted more than to run full speed ahead to a health care provider.

I got Shingles.

No, I'm not over 60 years of age. But I guess some stress and weakened immune-system can do it. It's not the funnest I've had this week but I had a chance to listen to this. Love it.

3 comments:

Heidi Perez said...

OY! So sorry :(:(

S-Bells said...

Yes! I have been listening to that talk. And I'm so sorry a about the shings!

Heidi Perez said...

Hey! Guess what I just found! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_tree_oil
I was sick a while ago and my vt'er is an artsy, unique lady (love her) and she went out and bought some tea tree oil, put a little in a bottle and gave it to me. So I just looked it up on wikipedia, and know what I found??!! THIS:

"There is some very limited research that has shown that tea tree oil may have topical antiviral activity, especially against the herpes virus (cold sores), chicken pox, shingles blisters, etc."[18]

Go get yo'sef some!